Second Year Registration

To create your schedule and enroll in courses on or after your enrollment appointment date go to: Bear Tracks > My Schedule Builder > Select Term > Enter course search information

Many courses are only offered in one term: please take this into consideration when building your schedule. We recommend you use the filters in My Schedule Builder to narrow down your search.

Before your enrollment appointment date, we recommend that you validate your course schedules. Validating your schedule checks for course restrictions and ensures you meet the requirements for each of the classes you selected. This step will help speed up the registration process and result in a more seamless experience on your enrolment day. 

To validate your schedule, after you have added classes to your enrollment cart, return to ‘Schedule Results’ and select ‘Validate Enrollment Course Cart.’ If successful, you will see the message ‘OK to Add’ in the results column. If restrictions are not met, you will see a message in the results column with details. Revise your schedule and continue validating new classes until you have drafted a schedule without registration errors. Note: Validating your schedule does not mean that you have enrolled.

Once you have your schedule built, you need to enroll in your courses. Click ‘Get this Schedule’ from the drop down menu. Under Action, choose (checkout) Enroll and ‘Do Actions.’  

Once you have completed this step, click ‘Return to Selected Courses.’ You will now see beside each of the courses a blue box that says ‘Enrolled.’ Your registration is now complete. You can repeat these steps for each course or a full term of courses all at once.

This important feature enables students to safely change their registration to a different class. The Swap function in Bear Tracks will not process the drop of a currently registered course unless you are able to successfully add the new course. This feature protects your seat in the registered course if for some reason you are not able to add the new class. Please use this function instead of dropping the first class before registering in the second class. 

*If you use this function in My Schedule Builder, it acts only as a drop and add, therefore not saving your seat if the class is full or if there are other restrictions as you process your request.

If a class is full, you can use the Watch List feature in My Schedule Builder to notify you when seats become available. This is not a waitlist; if space opens in the course, all students who have it on their Watch List will be notified. The first person to register gets the space in the class.

Set up your Watch List by entering your mobile phone information. You will then receive a text when space opens.  

*Note: international numbers are not supported by this feature.

To put a class on your Watch List, search for the class and then a box will appear under the course information: ‘Notify me when seats open.’

Class Remarks contain important information about the class as well as restrictions and registration dates for different student groups. Class Remarks are listed under the course information when you add a course to your draft schedule.Note: Not all class sections will have Class Remarks.

Since most Engineering labs do not start during the first week of classes, each term you will need to use the toggle below your draft schedule to move ahead to future weeks and view the dates and times for the labs.

Many courses are only offered in one term. The University of Alberta Calendar may indicate that a course is typically offered in either term, however, in practice, they are normally offered in only one of the Fall, Winter, or Spring/Summer terms. The best place to see course availability is to search for classes in My Schedule Builder. If a class is not offered in a specific term, an error message will appear. 

Example: Searching for ECE 240 in Fall 2024 term, brings up this error message:

Placements into programs are final. Your discipline program assignment was determined based on your PAF and your program rankings on the Program Selection form.

To be considered for admission into a different discipline, students must first complete a minimum of eight courses from their assigned discipline over two terms, and present a minimum two-term GPA of 3.0. For more information, visit our Changing Programs page.

Take the time to learn more about your program using the resources and materials available to you in the Engineering Career Connections Resource Vault. Students who are just starting out on their career discovery journey should start on the Discover Your Anything: Exploring Options page to learn about the various career path options available to them in their discipline. Read through the discipline-specific career information for your program for a high-level overview, including key industries and areas of research, sample job titles, and a select list of companies who hire graduates from the program. 

The University of Alberta Career Centre also offers career development opportunities to investigate: you may discover exciting new careers that you want to pursue within your assigned program.